Tag: FieldScaper

Today Igor Vasiliev (creator of FieldScaper and SoundScaper) brings us another synth specifically for experiments and soundscapes, and I’m betting that this is going to be just as interesting in terms of sound design as his other apps.

Here’s what to expect from SynthScaper:

Synthesizer specially designed for creating and experiments with ambient soundscapes in wide range from noises to melodic instruments and everything in between.

You can construct melodic pads or atonal soundscapes from different kind of built-in or downloaded samples by using all power of multi-layered oscillators, chains of filters and effects, envelope generators and low frequency oscillators. Or just use predefined scenes and creating your own scenes from library of oscillators presets.

Very flexible settings of each module give you a great opportunity for creating unique and colorful sounding from usual instruments or natural samples and adding automated changes and spatial effects for an endless variations. Different ways of assigning screen and MIDI keyboards to the oscillators provide very advanced features to control the sound. The on-screen keyboard is adapted to create special effects and varying the continuous textures and drones.

Main features:

Three independent oscillators.

Three layers with own samples in each oscillator.

Six voices in each layer.

Six envelope generators.

Six low frequency oscillators.

Separate arpeggiator for each oscillator.

General processing of level, balance, LPF, HPF for each layer.

Three additional slots for filters and effects after each oscillator.

Set of different kind of filters and effect modules.

Spatial mixer with two different sound space.

Screen keyboard adapted for continuous drones and soundscapes.

Predefined set of keyboard scales and custom scales.

Full screen, double and split features for screen keyboard.

Options of screen keyboard for pitch, continuous, modify, velocity.

Supports for two virtual and two MIDI keyboards at the same time.

Flexible assigning keyboards and controls to the oscillators.

Two main effects controls can combine several parameters.

Uploading samples thru Dropbox, Web access, clipboard.

Auto and manual tuning of samples with frequency analyzer.

Set of predefined and ready-to-use scenes and presets.

Built-in library of samples of instruments, synths, noises, etc.

Detailed application description.

Inter-App audio compatible (with transport and BPM controls).

Supports Audiobus with “State Saving” feature.

SynthScaper will be constantly developed and next version will have even more sounds, effects and features.

Like this:

FieldScaper is a pretty innovative app, and from a developer who brings us new and unusual concepts. To see it continually evolve and improve is nothing short of a delight. This update adds new options to the field recorder which is the one of main parts of FieldScaper specially designed for recording and editing samples, noises and environmental sounds. Also in this update:

If you don’t know FieldScaper already then this is something you should probably correct. This is a really interesting and experimental app for recording and version 1.5 brings a lot of new functionality. Here’s what’s new: